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Medicare provides essential support for millions of older Americans in protecting their health. Recently, concerns about the potential for fraud and identity theft led the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to come up with a design for new Medicare cards. To provide complete and accurate information, you'll find answers below to some key questions about the new Medicare cards and how they'll affect you.

Few investors can match the track record of investing performance that Warren Buffett has achieved, and longtime shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) know firsthand how successful long-term investing can result in life-changing wealth. Buffett would be the first to tell you that Berkshire has seen extraordinary returns over time. As Buffett describes it, "Stocks surge and swoon, seemingly untethered to any year-to-year buildup in their underlying value." The result is short-term price randomness for stocks, and investors can have no confidence that the price of a stock in the market will bear any connection to its intrinsic value at any given time.

Shares of a software company that bought assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) toppled more than 50 percent on Monday after the company cut its revenue forecast and its chief executive resigned. U.K.-based Micro Focus International said it now expects revenue to fall anywhere between 6 and 9 percent for the twelve months ending October 31, 2018, significantly lower than the 2 to 4 percent decline it predicted in its interim January results. This was due largely to "one-off transitional effects" of the firm's $8.8 billion takeover of HPE's software assets last year, and issues associated with the implementation of a new IT system, Micro Focus said. HPE was formed in late 2015 as a result of the split of HP into two companies.

Since December 2016, the S&P 500 has climbed more than 21%, while the Dow Jones Industrial is up more than 25%. General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) stock is down nearly 55% during that time. Things just look very bleak for GE stock right now.

In his 2017 letter to Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) shareholders, Warren Buffett made comments about stocks, bonds, and the risk associated with investing in each. His conclusion? For long-term investors, stocks are the only way to go.

Mar.18 -- Apple is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time, using a secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters to make small numbers of the screens for testing purposes, according to people familiar with the situation.

During 2017, Airbus (NASDAQOTH: EADSY) outpaced perennial rival Boeing (NYSE: BA) in the annual race to sell the most new aircraft. Airbus captured 1,109 net firm orders last year, compared to 912 for its American rival. By contrast, Boeing had a more balanced order mix, with 745 net orders for the 737 family and 167 net orders spread across its four widebody aircraft families.

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) has been hit by another security scare, this time a report from CTS Labs. The Israeli company detailed 12 “critical flaws” in its Ryzen chips, and gave AMD only 24 hours notice before publication. It couldn’t have helped but affect AMD stock.

In his first comments on the incident, Putin referred to the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter as a “tragedy,” but added that if the British claim that they were poisoned by the Soviet-designed nerve agent were true, the victims would have been killed instantly. Skripal, a former Russian intelligence officer convicted in his home country of spying for Britain, and his daughter have remained in critical condition following the March 4 poisoning. “It’s quite obvious that if it were a military-grade nerve agent, people would have died on the spot,” he said.

Geron Corp. (NASDAQ: GERN), a small-cap cancer company, released its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings after the bell last Friday. While earnings for developmental-stage biotechs like Geron are generally meaningless, the company did update investors on the progress of the collaboration with Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE: JNJ) biotech subsidiary Janssen. Turning to the specifics, Geron noted -- two-thirds of the way through the press release -- that imetelstat's mid-stage myelofibrosis (MF) trial in patients that are relapsed or refractory to Incyte's (NASDAQ: INCY) JAK1/2 inhibitor, Jakafi (ruxolitinib), had not yet reached the median overall survival rate at a "median follow up of approximately 19 months," per a January cut-off date.

Conglomerates combine many businesses that don't necessary fit together well, and while there's sometimes value in bringing together companies from multiple industries under a single corporate roof, the market lately has looked with disfavor at conglomerates that they see as being less than optimally organized. Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has a history of traditional stock splits, but now, the company is looking at breaking itself up to see if it can unlock more value for shareholders. Honeywell's history of stock splits has reflected its rising stock price over time.

Mar.18 -- No stunner. Russian President Vladimir Putin won a record fourth term in office Sunday but the weights of U.S. sanctions, a weaker ruble and falling oil prices - in addition to missed targets for rises in state salaries, labor productivity and capital investment - are pressuring his economy. Ramy Inocencio reports on the 2018 election results and challenges that await Vladimir Putin over his next six years.

President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned the impartiality of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and raised doubts about whether a fired top FBI official kept personal memos outlining his interactions with Trump. The president’s Twitter barbs follow closely on the call by Trump’s personal lawyer for the Trump-appointed No. 2 Justice Department official overseeing Mueller’s inquiry to “bring an end” to that investigation.

Right now, it looks like technology giant Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT), dominant protein provider Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE: HRL), and biotech giant Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) are stocks you could hold for the next 20 years or more. Tim Green (Microsoft): After surging about 240% over the past five years, Microsoft is not a particularly cheap stock. Microsoft has successfully navigated the shift to cloud computing over the past few years.

It looked like NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) would run away with the GPU (graphics processing unit) market by steamrolling Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) with a superior product line-up. The two graphics specialists have been engaged in a bitter war for GPU market share, and AMD had the upper hand toward the beginning of 2017.

As the legal medical marijuana industry in Canada has taken off, a small group of stocks of marijuana growers has vaulted to multibillion-dollar market caps. Other Canadian marijuana stocks, however, haven't become that highly valued. Canopy Growth Corporation (NASDAQOTH: TWMJF) is an example of the former group, while Organigram Holdings (NASDAQOTH: OGRMF) belongs to the latter category.

This past year has been an excruciating one for investors in NuStar Energy (NYSE: NS), which has tumbled nearly 60%. While a payout that high usually is a sign of trouble -- and it was for NuStar last year -- that no longer seems to be the case now that the company has outlined its new way forward. One of the issues that eroded NuStar's value over the past year is that distributable cash flow took a hit, dropping from $365 million in 2016 to $258 million in 2017.

A survey several years ago revealed that millennials are assuming that they'll spend much less in retirement than they're likely to spend. It's also a mistake not limited to millennials. Well, the 2015 "Will Millennials Ever Be Able to Retire?" report and the 2017 "Millennials and Retirement" report issued by the Insured Retirement Institute offer some troubling findings regarding millennials.

BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) said it will invest an extra $2 billion (£1.43 billion) in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group and tapped a top executive to run the business, as it takes on rivals such as tech titan Amazon in an aggressive expansion in the region. One of the 18 founders of Alibaba, veteran executive Lucy Peng will take over as Lazada's chief executive, replacing founder Max Bittner who will become a senior adviser to Alibaba. Alibaba's stake will increase to an undisclosed size following the latest investment, a spokeswoman told Reuters.

NEW YORK (AP) — Not since "Avatar" has a box-office hit had the kind of staying power of "Black Panther." Ryan Coogler's comic-book sensation on Sunday became the first film since James Cameron's 2009 smash to top the weekend box office five straight

Increasing adoption of electric vehicles and renewable-energy technologies has fueled worries that demand for oil may be nearing its peak. In fact, instead of cooling off after a banner year, demand growth has come in hotter than expected so far in 2018, keeping the price of crude higher than many anticipated. If that trend continues, oil producers could reap a windfall of profits this year, and make their investors a lot of money.

Forty-five U.S. trade associations representing some of the largest companies in the country are urging President Donald Trump not to impose tariffs on China, warning it would be "particularly harmful" to the U.S. economy and consumers. The organizations said in a letter sent to Trump on Sunday that potential tariffs on China would raise prices on consumer goods, kill jobs and drive down financial markets. The letter marks the latest in a growing rift between Trump and the business community on trade policies, as the president has begun to take more aggressive steps he says are needed to protect domestic industry.

Through its John Deere brand, Deere & Company is a leading manufacturer of agricultural, construction, and forestry machinery. Deere & Company shares have surged about 45% over the past year, significantly outpacing its industry peers. Region wise, equipment net sales increased 24% in the United States and Canada, and 33% in the rest of the world.

It’s a fate for drug dealers that Trump, who aims to be seen as tough on crime, has been highlighting publicly in recent weeks. Trump also wants Congress to pass legislation reducing the amount of drugs needed to trigger mandatory minimum sentences for traffickers who knowingly distribute certain illicit opioids, said Andrew Bremberg, Trump’s domestic policy director, who briefed reporters Sunday on the plan Trump is scheduled to unveil Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard-hit by the crisis.

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), and Universal Display (NASDAQ: OLED). The drive to create ever-more powerful cards for computer gaming (which even has organized professional leagues these days), increasing automation on the way to full autonomous operation for vehicles, and the proliferation of cryptocurrencies has really juiced the company's results. The trends that have propelled the company higher will only intensify going forward, even if it isn't quite the inescapable presence on the cryptocurrency scene that many believe it is.